There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
From George R. R. Martin
In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'
I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
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