Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house..

I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the ti….

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings..

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine..

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you t….

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writ….

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice ….

You can't open your presents 'til you write your thank-you letters..

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think a….

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do..

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky..

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town..….

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds..

Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two….

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one wou….

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about ….

I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that thi….

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones..

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it al….

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think..