I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Don't expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That's it!' I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they've written a story, nobody will ever try it again.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire.
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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