With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?

As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance... The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it’s just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.