top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Do people choose the art that inspires them - do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller."
Standard
Customized
More
"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
Movies
"I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay."
Joy
"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."
Love
"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."
Love
"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."
Growth
"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"
Work
"I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life."
Life
"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
Reading
"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
Direction
"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."
People
More
"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music is breath of life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music gives life to the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page