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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.