“And what happens is the number’s over. Old revivals. Yow. Blackout. One of the cowboys rips Velcro. I spin out of this dress. He exits. Underneath it I have a full Liza Minnelli red sequin pantsuit on. And there is a dresser who has run on stage and...
“I’ll tell you one of the things I used to do in my, uh, English, uh, literature classes when I was teaching for the University of Maryland. I take them out and, um, for 10 minutes, all I just said, all I want you to do when I go outside is look up in the...
“Don’t just sit down and write a book. It’s just not going to work. The best thing to do is take the smallest steps and write a little scene about something. You don’t have to have the whole book. You don’t have to even know what...
“Just support your fellow artists and your fellow writers and be supportive of your team. You know, thank your editor, show your appreciation like they are working so hard. And it may not be the same position as you have, it may not be the same thing as writing,...
“I did bring him some of my writing and he wrote me back and said, you dialogue crackles, which I always remembered. But, and this is so funny to think back on, you need more experience. You need to have more experiences. Uh, I think about that now. And he was...
