I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished..

I write because I can't imagine not writing..

Beat him, eat him and get out..

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road..

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into th….

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!.

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole differ….

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying o….

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to m….

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban ….

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest….

The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays..

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or sa….

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write..

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments..

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of t….

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax….

As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real ….

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this….