There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.
I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them to read.
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.
Some books are so vivid, I think the words fell off the page and worked their way inside my head.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
