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The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe it's because I talk too much!

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.