It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

…one of the most exciting things about being a writer is finding the life in different characters whom you don’t know at all. To a certain extent, you’ve got to let them live their own life. But there’s also a conflict constantly going on between you as the writer and them as the characters. Who’s in charge? There’s no easy answer to that. I suppose, finally, the author is in charge. Because, whether the character likes it or not, all I’ve got to do is take out my pen and do that (a gesture of erasure) and he’s lost a line. It may be one of his favourite lines of dialogue [laughter]. But I’ve got the pen in my hand.

“I’ve Written 29 Damn Plays. Isn’t that Enough?” by Michael Billington, The Guardian, Mar 14, 2006

Harold Printer: Born 10 Oct 1930. Died 24 Dec 2008.