I'd Love To Be Able To Write

A Basic “must” For Every Writer: A Simple Solitude-physical & Mental.

An Ingmar Bergman Film Would Probably Owe A Sizeable Bulk Of Its Import And Its Direction And Its Quality To The Directorial End And To The Director Because It's Uniquely A Bergman Film. But That Again Is Not The General - No, That's Much More The Exception Than The Rule.

I Think I Would Like To Be In Victorian Times. Small Town. Bandstands. Summer. That Kind Of Thing. Without Disease.

I've Never Really Topped Myself, Because Awards In Themselves Really Don't Reflect Major Accomplishment. It's Kind Of A Strange, Backslapping Ritual That We Go Through In This Town Where You Get Awards For Almost Everything. For Surviving The Day You're Going To Get Awards.

Writing Is A Demanding Profession And A Selfish One. And Because It Is Selfish And Demanding, Because It Is Compulsive And Exacting, I Didn't Embrace It. I Succumbed To It.