I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

He could start a row in an empty house.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.