I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

I wonder why he shot me.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.