The Princess Bride is the only novel of mine that I really like. And I don’t know how I did it . . . I don’t understand the creative process. Actually, I make more than a concerted effort to not understand it.”
William Goldman
Four Screenplays with Essays
Page 270
P.S. One of the things I enjoy discovering is how contradictory writers and artists can be. Here’s the flip side of Goldman’s quote;
“The whole thing is a mystery to me. It’s like I go to work and I sit around taking a nap and read a couple of books and curse myself for being a lazy swine. And at some point a work of some description shows up and I say how did that get there? . . . What I’m trying to do—I’ve written a lot of books [on acting and writing]—is understand a mysterious process. Try to get closer to a mysterious process.”
Screenwriter/playwright/novelist David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Verdict)
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Great article!
Thank you.