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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'
I tend to live my life on planes, and I don't separate my social life and my business life.
My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
