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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can’t do anything anyway.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

My son – and what’s a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Making films is sort of like you’re pulling off a magic trick. It’s sort of like an illusion. It’s not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you’re wearing to the make-up, to the light.