In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.