Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.