Interesting interview with
novelist and screenwriter Richard Price on Today’s Zaman site. If you haven’t
read his novel, “Freedomland,” I recommend it highly although some of his
others, like ”The Wanderers” and “Clockers,” are better known, and he also
wrote the screenplays “The Color of Money,” “Ransom,” and “Mad Dog and Glory.”
If you find yourself experiencing
doubts during your writing process, it may console you to know that someone
with Price’s level of success has the same issues:
“For me it takes a few years
to write a book. I feel so anxious about ‘was this a good idea?’ It just means
that someone has to calm me down, like an editor; he should convince me that
it’s worth working on so that I’ll go on. It’s like temperamental. It’s a sort
of a joke. ... Familiarity is important because I realize that I go through
this with every book. But the minute I finish that book, I forget and then I go
through it again. Someone has to tell me, ‘This is the seventh time you’re
going through this,’ and somebody has to be around me enough to know.”
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