Never Use A Verb Other Than ‘said’

If You Take A Few Days To Write An Outline, You're Just Making Up Scenes That You Think Will Work, That You Think Will Be Interesting. But As You Write It, Other Ideas Occur - Better Ideas That Have To Do With What You're Writing.

I Once Saw Dizzy Gillespie At A Live Show, And It Made Me Want To Go Home Immediately And Start Writing.

My Most Important Rule Is One That Sums Up The 10: If It Sounds Like Writing, I Rewrite It.

A Man Can Be In Two Different Places And He Will Be Two Different Men. Maybe If You Think Of More Places He Will Be More Men, But Two Is Enough For Now.

What Do You Tell A Man With Two Black Eyes? Nothing, He's Already Been Told Twice.