“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.” William Goldman, Adventures in
the Screen Trade
