Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Creativity is an altogether personal thing. It's an art that cannot be taught normally. It's a demanding, frustrating, challenge facet of the human experience.…

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

All writers are born, they are never made. The talent to recreate in language, the experience of life is, has to be God-given.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must…

[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that whic…