It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless

Life is a question, to live it positively is the Answer

You can kiss me if you like," she said. Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

The people of Pakistan are some of the most hospitable, kinds and generous people I have met anywhere, in the over 70 countries I have visited in my lifetime.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.