In the San Francisco Examiner, Rossiter Drake quotes Woody Allen on the writing process:
""I started out as a television writer, for a show that was on live every week. "You didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you wrote, because you had to. So I can do that. It's not always good, but I can get something on the page pretty frequently.
"I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen, on my bed. I go into my room, I take a walk, I take a shower, and eventually I write. Some things come out well, some don't. When it works, I type it up afterward."
He says the process is wracked with anxiety: "You always start off thinking you're going to make 'Citizen Kane' or 'The Bicycle Thief,' the greatest movie ever made, and by the end you're just praying that people will sit through it," he says. "You end up compromising all your lofty ideas — you're in a battle for survival."
I would have been disappointed if he'd said it all comes easily...
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