I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's ….

My most recent novel didn't start out scaring me, but as I got deeper into writing it, it scared me. It's not so much where the story's going. It's w….

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ….

As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep mean….

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up..

I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a p….

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable..

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly..

I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always….

My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about….

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write..

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writin….

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place..

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels..

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it..

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option. I might publish this, I….

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a de….

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise marke….

I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band..

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me..