There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.