Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
People think I've been sitting here in an ivory tower with minions or something. But I've been wandering around the Safeway wondering what to cook for dinner like everybody else.
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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