My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms...
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
Every feeling I ever knew was up in that sky: Twinkling joyous sunlight; airy, giggling cloud wisps; blinding columns of sun. Orbs of gold, pink, flesh, utterly cheesy in their luminosity. Gigantic pu...
I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of...
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.
And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll b...