In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.