Stuff
Ed Decter Revealed
About Ed Decter
-
What is your birthdate?:5/19
-
Previous occupations:I have been a professional writer since I was twenty. Before that I projected movies at college.
-
Favorite job:Directing movies is my favorite thing on earth.
-
High school and/or college:High school: West Orange, N.J. College: Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
-
Name of your favorite composer or music artist?:Bruce Springsteen
-
Favorite movie:It's a Wonderful Life
-
Favorite television show:The Wire
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Dad and husband with very little time!
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. There are no shortcuts.
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. A day with nothing to do but walk my big dog with my daughter.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Being stuck in a humid room with no way out.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. I'd like to be with my family on the seacoast of Italy.
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. Charles Dickens because he had to keep writing every single day in order to make a living.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. Barack Obama because of how far he came to get where he is.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. "Daddy needs to get back on the computer."
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. Not having taken a semester abroad.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. I would love to sing. This will not happen.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Easy question: being a husband and father
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Impatience! I need things to happen NOW!
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. Loyalty.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. I would be Bruce Springsteen (I am from New Jersey).
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. I move fast and never slow down.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Charlie Brown. He always believed Lucy wouldn't move the football.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Lucy. She always moved the football.
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. I'd like to meet William Shakespeare and ask him how it was all possible.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. When someone gets eliminated from American Idol that I loved.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. I believe myself to be a crossword puzzle genius. But I'm not.
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. If I couldn't be in the film business, I'd like to be a musician in the E Street Band.
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. Loyalty. Honesty. Humor.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. New Jersey pizza.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. Darkness on the Edge of Town and any four other Boss songs.
On Books and Writing
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. Too many to name but, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, Goodbye Columbus, Frannie and Zooey, The Great Santini, Matilda.
- Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. The Great Gatsby
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Writers write; keep plugging away every single day.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. "Have you met J.K. Rowling?"
- Q. How did you come to write One?
- A. I write and direct movies in Los Angeles and I've known, hired and fired a lot of girls like Chloe Gamble. Her story is the story of a girl with a big dream and the talent to back it up.
