Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.
Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.
Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.