I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up..

It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with a blank page, especia….

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood ….

All great acheivements require time..

Nothing develops intelligence like travel..

Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly o….

It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' ….

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes..

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a ….

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves..

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?.

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pa….

As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not ex….

If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is c….

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of sugges….

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pr….

I really tend to write in retrospect..

I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witnes….

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write..

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about..

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once..