When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
James LiptonA good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.
James LiptonI must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.
James LiptonI stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.
James LiptonI jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.
James Lipton