"Daniel Pink is one of the most successful non-fiction writers of the past 30 years. You've probably seen his books, Drive, The Power Regret, To Sell as Human. Maybe you've even seen his viral TED talk..."

"right? I feel like there's two kinds of writers. There's writers who are like, "No, I never talk about my writing before I publish it." And then there's people who are like, "Yeah, I'll talk about it ..."

"What's important to know about breaks for writers? >> Oh, the most lots of stuff for for well for writers and for everybody. Okay. So, um, writers and and others need to think about breaks the way tha..."

"Okay. For me, it's less a kind of art sort of classically artistic thing in that you're building something that has to work and you're you're testing it and you're seeing, you know, is this, you know,..."

"Can you walk me through the structure of a book proposal? Like, okay, so I want to sit down to do this. I have an idea. >> What is my outline? What are the >> It depends. It It depends. The most impor..."

"That was the and and so so so what I did is I there was this book that I was working on. My publisher thinks I'm working on book A. And they had no idea that I was I was going through sort of this thi..."

"You had just said that you like when the source material for a book is interdisciplinary. Why is that? Um because um what I see happening, this is the the the advantage of being a generalist is that y..."

"What happened to me was this. Try to be brief here. I I went to law school and um no no desire to be not thinking that I would be a writer although I had I had some inklings. I I never set out to be a..."

"It seems like when I think of your process, when I think of your approach, one of the core things to understand is you say read slowly, you write slowly. I'm very slow. >> So then there's a certain co..."

"The biggest lie that writers will tell themselves is ah I'll remember that later. No, I mean there's so many times when I'm listening to a podcast, they'll want to save something and I just never end ..."

"plays. So, well, now what's drawn you to plays? >> I've always been a huge fan of going to plays. Um, I I think there is something about live, especially now in this moment, uh, live theater where is ..."

"So is it the same process of writing the play? Cuz it's a narrative. Like I'll throw something at you that's intentionally provocative. It's a narrative. You need more space to get into the narrative...."

"If you were to go back to Yale or go back to school and you were basically to give the seminar on what you've learned about writing, how do you structure that curriculum, the semester? What are the th..."

"till the last minute or something like that. And um ended up writing an essay saying the opposite of what I believed. Okay? Like my like you had to take a stand on something. But the thing is is like ..."

"So, if you do something like a moot court or something like that, um, you know, on a constitutional issue, you know, and there's a coin flip, it's like, okay, you're on this side, you're on this side,..."

"There really is a certain a certain just accumulation of quantity that you need in any field. Like Danny Meyer before he went and started Square Cafe and became, you know, ends up doing Shake Shack. H..."

"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I keep a I've been keeping a commonplace book for eight years where every day I write one kind of sentence or phrase or paragraph or something that has like I've encountered that has..."

"As we begin to close, as you're thinking of your writing and how you're going to frame it, how you're going to what you're going to focus on before you start the writing, what do you really value? One..."

"And that's what I want that's what I want to try to do. That's what I've been trying to do for 20 years with my books. And um and then even in terms of playwriting, this the plays that I'm writing are..."