What I do is me, for that I came..

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of mo….

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper..

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One..

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14..

Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers who've supported their work….

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story..

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story..

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows ….

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money..

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences….

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind..

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash..

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining..

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight..

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories..

Don’t be against things so much as for things..

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is..

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author..