I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. |
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe. |
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! |
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. |
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. |
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. |
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' |
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written. |
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time. |
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. |
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods. |
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. |
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by. |