Arbeit / Work Bergwerk / Mine Dichter / Poet Ding / Thing Eigenartig / Peculiar Geschrieben / Written Glücklich / Happy Hätten / Had Lesen / Read Sagen / Say Sagte / Said Sehr / Very Über / About
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.
Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.
Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
I read so much Harry Potter, that's, like, all I wanted to talk about. I watched stuff like 'Lizzie McGuire.' I watched things that were very mainstream but white, and I went to a predominately white school.
I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
