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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

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Nov 07, 2020

I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

Nov 07, 2020

The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

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Nov 07, 2020

When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.

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Nov 07, 2020

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

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Nov 07, 2020

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Nov 07, 2020

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

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Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

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Nov 07, 2020

Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

Nov 07, 2020

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

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Nov 07, 2020

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think that the Internet creates feelings that aren't there, nor does it provide an outlet. On the contrary, what I have thought about things like computer games - what has disturbed me about them - is that they appear to stimulate feelings of aggression without providing any physical release.

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Nov 07, 2020

It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged.

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Nov 07, 2020

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

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