If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

THIS QUOTE CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM UNFORGIVEN"This whole time, I've been in Hell?" She stepped away from Cam, out of the spotlight and into darkness."Because of you.

If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.

If I'm a "B player," that's because the "B" stands for badass.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.