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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.