When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I...
Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan,...
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....