Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
“God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.”
“I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.”