“I think for the less experienced writer, thinking always about the five senses and to try and include them as much as possible. Also, it’s very important to not let the editor inhibit you and just allow yourself to write and write. And the more you write,...
“Very few people make it to the end, very few people get published, but even fewer people who want to write a story actually finish. And there’s a lot of regret there. So my, my clarion call to anybody who even brings that up to me is if you start it, do...
“P.K. Edgewater: You have to be curious. Just be curious about weird people. Seriously. However you define weird, you know, they’re different from you, so they’re weird. Try to understand why they behave the way they do, why they dress the way they...
“It has to pay off in the moment or we simply won’t do it. If I say to myself, well, I’m gonna write this, but I don’t care if anybody reads it until after I’m dead, maybe you would. I’m never gonna write that because I can’t...
“The director I learned the most from was Clint Eastwood. And I learned many, many things from him. He is an absolute master and he would not ever want to do more than four takes. Now, uh, you work with some directors who will do 20 takes. He would only do four....
