you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Just do what makes sense.

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.