(b. 1947– )
U.S. playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director“How much can one remove, and still have the composition be intelligible? Chekhov removed the plot. Pinter, elaborating, removed the history, the narration; Beckett, the characterization. We hear it anyway.”
more infosource: “Writers on Writing; Hearing The Notes That Aren’t Played,” The New York Times, July 15, 2002.
category: edit, nothing, omission, subtraction, writing
medium: Newspaper Essay
David Mamet