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Corporate career is like my wife, and writing is my girlfriend. My priority is the first but enjoy doing the second, as I have taken to writing as a stress-beater.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.
I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.
