Als / Than Autor / Author Bewirbt sich / Applying Buch / Book Erfindung / Invention Gefunden / Found Habe gedacht / Thought Sein / Being Weniger / Less Zuerst / First
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
