Hollywood's A Great Place To Live... If

I've Written All That I've Wanted To Write To Date.

Imagination... Its Limits Are Only Those Of The Mind Itself.

This Is, If Not A Lifetime Process, It's Awfully Close To It. The Writer Broadens, Becomes Deeper, Becomes More Observant, Becomes More Tempered, Becomes Much Wiser Over A Period Time Passing. It Is Not Something That Is Injected Into Him By A Needle. It Is Not Something That Comes On A Wave Of Flashing, Explosive Light One Night And Say, 'huzzah! Eureka! I've Got It!' And Then Proceeds To Write The Great American Novel In Eleven Days. It Doesn't Work That Way. It's A Long, Tedious, Tough, Frustrating Process, But Never, Ever Be Put Aside By The Fact That It's Hard.

I'm Afraid That If I Started To Ponder Who I Am And What I Am, I Might Not Like What I Find.

I Think The Essence Of The Argument Has Always Been, First Of All, The Guild Doesn't Want Writing On Spec. And That's Been A Major Problem Over The Years. But Obviously, To The Young Writer That's Unfair And It's Discriminatory, And It Can Be Very Hurtful To One's Career.