Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, a….

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have som….

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words..

I'm just going to be me..

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny..

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them..

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine..

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be..

When it comes to work, there are many who will stop at nothing..

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background..

To have a future we have to live and leave the present..

Patience is the road to wisdom..

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!.

We do not become. We simply are..

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls..

I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead..

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will….

When you make a bet, you're saying something..

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all..

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything..