What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like going after good material, well-written material.
When you're trying to force things in a script, it seems like it's getting somewhere, but it isn't real or interesting. All the bad material you've written becomes an albatross around your neck. So I really don't like writing a lot of bad stuff, I prefer to just keep narrowing it down to stuff I think is solid.
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.