Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.
I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages take on the character's sound. I don't want the reader to be aware of me, writing.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.
In order to keep your husband, you have to make time for him. Rather than going out to dinner, I like to spend time for just the two of us.
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something. . . you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that. . . . You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.
It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.