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?

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.

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.

If you read, you will transform your life.

Don't hate me for being different.Just be thankful I'm not you.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.