Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

Get rid of old stereotype “I am a victim

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

To live sober is...to die countless times!

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.