Friday, January 08, 2010
From a Recovering Copywriter
I recently came across this quote from playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. Those of you who had the dubious opportunity of dealing with me as a "professional" writer will certainly appreciate why the quote made me smile... ruefully.
Rudnick said: "As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."
Rudnick said: "As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."
# posted by goots @ 8:53 AM 
