“I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.”

As television is learning some of the movies’ great tricks, movies are taking what’s good from TV.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out.

It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, “This is the kind of story we’re telling.”

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

If we don’t keep people engaged, we’re not going to move you. And if we move you, we’ve done something useful. That’s what anybody who writes genre knows.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn’t frivolous, people’s relationship to it isn’t frivolous.

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It’s like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

In the midst of these silent nights, the midnight breeze creeps in traveling between the naked trees swaying with elegancy suddenly the moon sings a mysterious melody.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

I have always admired my mother’s style. For as long as I can remember, her style has been classic, elegant and something I have related to.

Elegance is innate, individual, eternal, it stands the test of time!

So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.