I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written...

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there’s no gray area at all.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don’t actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it’s in...

You can’t really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

I’ve always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which...

I don’t read books regularly, because I’m always writing them. I’ve written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.