Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

He can’t imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn’t matter much else what they find.

It wasn’t conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it...

It can’t possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn’t mine to begin with.

I always liked spy stories.

I do want to go another way – to write something completely different.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don’t have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Peace is our gift to each other.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don’t even see that...

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I don’t begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don’t mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences....

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don’t make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we...

I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

My stories are never quite good enough.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself – you and God – at some point.

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

There’s no reason you should write any novel quickly.

It’s true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

The good old days are now.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.

At most I’ll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

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 book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn’t decide to write a first novel because I wouldn’t have anything like the necessary life experience.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Learning is finding out what you already know.