I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

To become a filthy rich, first you need to be filthy.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.