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...Lovesick, and he almost apologizes for having written Off-Broadway's newest hit, Aunt Dan & Lemon. "At the risk of sounding self-pitying, the project taxed my resources to the limit and sometimes beyond," he says. "It took more brains than I had, and to figure out how to write it, I had to borrow some of next year's brains and the next year's brains as well...
...fact, if Aunt Dan had been dismissed, as were most of his previous efforts, he might have abandoned the theater altogether. "I just don't think I can write a better play than this one," he says. But how could such a pleasant person write a drama that is at once so unpleasant and annoying, yet so provocative that half of New York seems to be waiting to get into the Public Theater? The answer is that, like many moralists with a pen, Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which...
...novelist John le Carré says that he will never write again about George Smiley. Le Carré cannot think of Smiley anymore without seeing Alec Guinness. The actor stole the author's creation, hijacked it into flesh. One remembers that some primitive peoples feared being photographed because they thought the camera would make off with their souls. Mention George Smiley to anyone who knows Le Carré's spy novels and his memory will instantly throw onto its screen the image of Alec Guinness. Smiley will not be fat and smudgy looking, as the novelist imagined him. He will be simply, immutably...
Celebrities of this new breed have one thing in common: they all write effectively. "Networking is catnip for people who communicate best by the written word," says Art Kleiner, a Berkeley, Calif., writer who runs conferences on CompuServe and EIES. In the world of computer networks, he says, "Good writers have charisma, mediocre writers improve, pushy or insensitive writers get ignored...
...writing. I go through different periods when I'll write a bunch of things, then go through long spells where I don't really write anything. I just jot down little phrases and things I overhear, people talking to me, stuff like that. Usually when I have some kind of deadline pressure, I'll get prolific. When I do work, I work for long periods of time, then I lay back for a minute. I'll work for, like, 24 or 30 hours, 14 hours at a time, then readjust after that. Then I do it again four or five...