Another nugget from the Shooting People interview with the late Anthony Minghella, this time about what makes a working writer:
“What separates most working writers from those who want to be writers is they have just committed more and they have written more and they have finished more. And you know it is a discipline to write, it is hard to write, it is no fun necessarily writing when you could be here dancing or whatever it is that happens in this building when we are not here! Unimaginable things obviously go on here that I never see because I stay at home with my pencil and notepaper you know. And I think it is a lonely activity but it is a beautiful activity but I think that looking for mystery about writing is a waste of time. There are no mysteries. It is about going on a journey, it is about saying I really feel I have something to say because if you have got nothing to say then don't bother writing. You know you don't have to write there are other things to do.”
Me, I'd rather be here with my pencil and notepaper...you, too, right?
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