Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it. . . . The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen.
My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.