“I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.” WritingAgeCoursesWrittenDangerousUniversityLawyerBourgeoisDangerous ThingsIncessantly Author:James Lipton
“I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.” ThinkingLongShowsBigsPurposeLevelsCasesDangerousHorseYeahCompetitionVery GoodI RealizedFlyingAppealsAirplaneFenceJumpingHigh Level Author:James Lipton