I attribute [success] to having the background of just loving the great stories of the world-and that's what makes the most successful films-combined with my trashy, vulgar appreciation of all that is modern Hollywood.

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I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to...

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power...

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power...

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions...

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want...

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal...

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal...

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must...

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must...

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from...

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from...

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously...

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously...

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how...

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that...

They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was...

They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.