To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser..

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’..

Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon..

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensel….

Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer run….

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another..

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write..

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner..

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good..

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to s….

Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the di….

To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture..

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they writ….

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?.

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans..

I just have to be me..

I am more than what they say I am..

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves..

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories ….

I keep writing books about why TV is good. There's nothing more fun to me than steering people toward something that I really loved that I think they….