Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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