Movies are too literal.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.