“You have to take the plunge. It’s easy to talk about the process, but it’s a confrontation. You’re confronting a blank page. It’s like drawing. You stare at a blank canvas and it goes from itself. You can call it a process, but you’re studying where this inspiration comes from. I don’t even have a specific time I write.”
More from Sam Shepard
“You write things in different states of mind. After a long day of writing, once you sleep…”
“I’m not interested in borders so much as I like putting things together.”
“The stories my characters tell are stories that are always unfinished, always imagistic…”
“Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play. Everything seemed like a possible…”