If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.