The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in t…

You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, 'real experience is peren…

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.