I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
