I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.