When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

For some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.'" "'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there

It's easy to forget that anything is possible with these guys. That there really are no limits.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.