All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
