When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.

Be fully present in the sacred-moment.

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.