The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controver….

The bravest are the tenderest..

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over..

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell..

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here..

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories.….

Time is 'to make'. it is not 'to have'..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..

By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..

We are only what we do, not what we say we are..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..

People who understand everything get no stories..

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing….

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they….

If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it..