Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all ….

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor..

You're a writer. Make it up..

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic f….

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying..

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human..

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might ….

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her..

She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed ….

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect..

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts..

I've never flown a kite..

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game..

Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves..

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me ma….

Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, a….

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue..

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own..

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter..

The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book w….

I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that his wish was carried ou….