Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
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William Goldman was a 20th-century American writer. William Goldman was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. Read more on Wikipedia →