Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

I write out of revenge.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.