Patrick Stewart Was The First

Whenever Somebody Says They Need An Angle For Their Story I Always Fear That They've Got An Idea And They Want Me To Fit Into It Or They Want Me To Come Up With An Idea Myself Or I'm Supposed To Be More Revealing Than I've Been, And To Me It Just Sounds Like Something I Don't Want To Do.

I Will Read Biographies Or Autobiographies While I'm Writing, But Mostly I Put Books In A To-read Queue, Like Rachel Cusk's New Novel, "outline."

As I've Gotten Older I've Become A Devotee Of 19th-century Authors, Such As Charles Dickens And George Eliot.

People Think Celebrities Don't Have To Worry About Human Things Like Sickness And Death And Rent. It's Like You've Traveled To This Land Of Celebrity, This Other Country. They Want You To Tell About What You Saw.

I Don't Know If [samuel] Beckett Is Something You Ever Bring To The Beach - Get Out Of The Water, Towel Off, And Start Reading Some Of "the Unnamable." Although, Because It's The Kind Of Book You Can Open To Any Page And Start Reading, It Is Beach Reading In That Way.