It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.

He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.