I've always been fascinated with writers, their process, and why they write.
Here's a compilation of interviews with Charlie Rose:
Begins with Martin Amis on the war against cliches.
2:25 - Zadie Smith on her faith in fiction: "A book is somebody's best self..."
4:27 - Malcolm Gladwell on finding the story: "Teaching yourself that everything is interesting..."
8:15 - Joan Didion on writing novels: "You're going to be in that room all by yourself for pretty long period of time..."
9:20 - Jonathan Franzen on the novelist's charge: "Think because it's fun to think sometimes...people are lonely. You're alone with yourself and novels are about connecting across the great gaps from the rather lonely center of one person to the rather lonely center of another..."
11:20 - Fran Lebowitz on the fear of writing: "I love words..."
