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...this is of acute and consoling interest to writers, whose odd existences are ordinarily strung between asking why we do it and doing it incessantly. The explanation I've been able to come up with has to do with freedom. You write a sentence, the basic unit of storytelling, and you are never sure where it will lead. The readers will not know where it leads either. Your adventure becomes theirs, eternally recapitulated in tandem--one wild ride together. Even when you come to the end of the sentence, that dot, it is still strangely inconclusive. I sometimes think...
...this freedom of the message sender and receiver that connects them--sailor to wife, the dying to the living. Writing has been so important in America, I think, because communication is the soul and engine of democracy. To write is to live according to one's terms. If you ask me to be serious, I will be frivolous. Magnanimous? Petty. Cynical? I will be a brazen believer in all things. Whatever you demand I will not give you--unless it is with the misty hope that what I give you is not what you ask for but what you want...
...government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody was in a rut. How many more f______ [Mulder and Scully] episodes can you write...
Carter took the change as an opportunity to shake up the show a bit. After Mulder was abducted by aliens at the end of last season, he decided to write not a pseudo Mulder but a skeptical foil for Scully. And when the hard-boiled Doggett joins the search for Mulder in the premiere (Fox, Nov. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.), Scully receives him as harshly as many X-philes have. "We let the returning characters speak to our own discomfort with the idea of a new guy," says executive producer Frank Spotnitz...
...those rich chocolate moments anymore. She's a busy working mom, living with her husband and two-year-old boy a few minutes from the beautiful California coastline, while I'm still single and confused, living a few blocks from a Manhattan sewage-treatment plant. We call and we write, but we haven't seen each other in years...