I Grew Up In The Theatre. It's

To Use A Basketball Metaphor, West Wing Cast Was A Group That Liked To Pass As Much As They Liked To Shoot.

It Wouldn't Kill You To Watch A Film Or Pick Up A Newspaper Once In A While.

I Love Writing But Hate Starting. The Page Is Awfully White And It Says, "you May Have Fooled Some Of The People Some Of The Time But Those Days Are Over, Giftless. I'm Not Your Agent And I'm Not Your Mommy, I'm A White Piece Of Paper, You Wanna Dance With Me?" And I Really, Really Don't. I'll Go Peaceable-like.

It's Certainly Easy For Me To Make A Fictional Character Mad About Something. I Can Get Them Angry About Something That I'm Relatively Indifferent About, Just Because I'm Not Educated On It, If I Go To Someone Who Is Educated About It And Is Passionate About It. I Find A Point Of Fiction And Then Give It To Them.

I Would Love For People To Think That I Am As Quick, Clever, Smart And Heroic As The Characters That I Write, But Those Characters Are Characters.