I would rather be dead than not read

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.

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

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

If you do not like an idea, challenge it with a better one!

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.