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"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now."
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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
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"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
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"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
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"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
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"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
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"If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff."
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"Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel."
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"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
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"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."
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"Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry."
Poetry
"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous."
People
"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
Music
"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."
Film
"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it."
Love
"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."
Movies
"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality."
Reality
"People will justify whatever for a good cause."
People
"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
Film
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