That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

All plots are cliche.

(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

Carla was wearing a No Fear sweatshirt. You are too old, Amy wanted to tell her, for legible clothing.

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.

A critical ingredient which binds customers to a brand is trust

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

Becoming nothing and no one was something she knew how to do.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.