“You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.”
“Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.”