If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

























