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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.
If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

























