I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

You can't make everybody happy.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

Mike Tyson is a sharp puncher. Earnie Shavers was a PUNISHING puncher. There was a difference between the two. Because when Shavers hit you, you feel it all the way through your body.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.