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I've never flown a kite.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.
- from the story De Composition

I am aware that I am aware

With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

If this is a dream the whole world is inside it.

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die.
I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.

I like having my own story remain my story.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

This life came so close to never happening..

You're a writer. Make it up.

The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

It smelled like jail ... sore knees and loose assholes.

They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
David Benioff; City of Thieves

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

Fear is part of our inheritance.
Lev from City of Thieves

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen.

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

The lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.