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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.
Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
