The Art Of Making Art, Is Putting

That's The Trouble With Awards For A Body Of Work. They Always Come At Both A Good Time And A Wrong Time. Good Because They Tell You What You've Been Doing Was Worth The Doing And Wrong Because They Ought To Come When You're Young And Excited And Hungry For Assurance That What You're Doing Is Worth The Doing.

When I Listen To My Work, I Think, What's So Inflammatory About It? It's Not Really That Dissonant. A Lot Of People Who Used To Hate My Stuff Have Come Round To It.

You Can't Have Personal Investors Anymore Because It's Too Expensive, So You Have To Have Corporate Investment Or A Lot Of Rich People.

I'm Sure Many Writers Have These Strange, Tiny Little Habits.

By The Time I Get Through Writing A Score, I Know The Book Better Than The Book Writer Does, Because I've Examined Every Word, And Questioned The Book Writer On Every Word.