Some of them get all huffy if you don't remember their names. They get over that pretty quick, usually. If I remembered the name of every writer that came through here, I'd go insane. I always remember the name of the head writer, the guy who reports to me, because it's always Stefano. Just the one word, and he's there at the other end, down in the writers' warren, wherever the hell that is.
Writing is all a matter of discipline.
From this point on I'm writing, in the sense that my writing is being done. Nothing else will exhaust you as much as turning yourself inside out in that way. It makes me almost envy the writers sometimes. A book tour is hard enough on an author without competition from a genius out of the past. The object of what I write is to move the gods to tears, and for that you've got to be loaded.