When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books….

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere..

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of ….

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell..

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point..

Perhaps... you love too fiercely..

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.

I only invoked what you already knew..

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and al….

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a….

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me..

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, bec….

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job..

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing..

At least I can write..