Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

I'm always geeking out about something.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.