Ask the Author: Rocky Lang
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Rocky Lang
I would go to Tralfamadore and hang out with Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack. (Slaughterhouse Five)
Rocky Lang
One morning I woke up and found a headless chicken in my car. Who put it there? A jealous boyfriend? The chapter is in my book, Growing Up Hollywood.
Rocky Lang
The idea for my last book, Letters From Hollywood (Abrams Books) came when a friend found a letter my father Jennings Lang (Producer of many films including Earthquake) had written in the late 1930s as a young man to a famous literary agent, H.N. Swanson asking for a job. That was what gave me the idea for that book that contains over 130 letters form Hollywood's icons.
Rocky Lang
A woman left my room at 10:00 pm. She had just told me she had a boyfriend. The next morning there was a dead chicken in my car....and that was the start. (Chapter is in my book, Growing Up Hollywood)
Rocky Lang
There was a book I read a long time ago called Writing Down the Bones...by Natalie Goldberg - basically, just sit down and let the ideas out. You can shape them later.
Rocky Lang
For me, the best thing about being a writer is the opportunity to immerse myself in different worlds and be constantly learning. With nonfiction, research is the fun part, and with fiction creating people and situations out of nothing is a challenge but incredibly rewarding.
Rocky Lang
I am currently working on a couple of book adaptations for television and thinking about the next book I will write.
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