Als / Than Arbeit / Work Beleidigen / Insult Einfach / Simply Erledigt / Done Fiktion / Fiction Gesucht / Wanted Handel / Trade Hätten / Had Islam Könnte / Could Lieber / Rather Roman / Novel Satz / Sentence Schreiben / Writing
It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.
I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
