You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Civilization had too many rules for me so I did my best to rewrite them.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning truth beauty.

Of course all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS and you don't have to run mine and we can use the same applications anyway!