Tabori went to write scripts for Hitchcock and Losey, but found Hitchcock a "control freak" and Hollywood a corrupt, superficial world.
He gave me good advice about my next novel, but when I went to write it down, shadowy people stole my paper.
"Gilead" was one of Wilson's earliest works, inspired by his eavesdropping at New York coffee shops where he went to write, and it helped establish Off Off Broadway as a scene with its debut at La MaMa.
"She went to Google, moved on to go to Facebook, went to write a book, and she'll know when to run for political office, and probably win that office," he said.
That lake — where, at one point, he had a shed where he went to write — provided a metaphor for how he thought about his sentences, which he polished, sometimes for years, until he felt he had got them right.
"Just write an article about what a mean mommy you are, get a lot of sexy media attention and hate mail for it, and watch the bidding war commence!" It was bad enough, the thinking went, to write about your daughter and her weight problems in Vogue, possibly the spiritual home of the eating disorder.
