I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

I want to find the answers of my questions!

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.