My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories

I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

A short absence is the safest.

I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.