Angehoben / Raised Bisschen / Bit Gelernt / Learned Ich kann / I Can Ja / Yes Lesen / Read Mir / Me Oma / Grandmother Russisch / Russian Schreiben / Write Sprechen / Speak Wer / Who
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It's a meeting on the page.
It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.
The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
