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I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!
The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!
You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.
