Ambition Auch / Too Bücher / Books Gut / Good Hätten / Had Hoch / High Lesen / Read Schriftsteller / Writer Standards Weil / Because Wurden / Were
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.
I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.