The First I Heard Of

The Key Relationship For Writers In Film Is Producers, Because Those Are The First Two People Involved And The Ones Who Work On It Intensely In A Private Way Without The Big Machinery Of Film.

Vietnam, Me Love You Long Time. All Day, All Night, Me Love You Long Time.

Dream Life, I Realized, Was Only Confusing When You Were Awake. It Was From The Perspective Of Waking Life That Dream Life Seemed Fractured And Lacking Consequence, Lacking Any Certainty That One Thing Led To Another. But From Within Dream Life, The World Was Generally Coherent. Not Exactly An Unconfusing World-just No More Confusing Than Any Other.

Show People Your Stuff, Listen Carefully To Their Responses, But Ultimately Don't Value Anyone's Opinion Above Your Own. Be Influenced By Writers You Dislike As Well As Writers You Like. Read Their Stuff To Figure Out What's Wrong. Find A Balance Between The Confidence That Allows You Continue, And The Self-critical Facility That Enables You To Improve. Get The Balance Wrong On Either Side, And You're Screwed.

I Wrote A Whole Novel Before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, For Some Reason I Stuck At Novels And Wrote A Second. Still Not Sure Why I Didn't Give Up. Stubborn, Maybe.