'Joy should dominate a writer's life'

 

“As a writer, I need an enormousamount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines,eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doingeverything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning andyou reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that orattempting to share it with me would be grisly.”– Paul Rudnick   Born in New Jersey on Dec. 29, 1957 Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter andessayist.  First catapulted to fame forhis work Addams Family Values, hisplays have been produced both on an off Broadway and around the world.   “Line by line, Mr. Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the stage in the UnitedStates today,” noted one New York Times reviewer.

An award-winner fornumerous stage and screen works, his humorous essays appear regularly in The New Yorker.         He's also authored half-dozen novels, the most recent being Playing The Palace and Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style.

Rudnick says joyshould be part of every writer’s life.  “Thereis only one blasphemy,” he said, “and that is the refusal to experience joy.”