Bedeutung / Meaning Dinge / Things Geben / Give Habe gedacht / Thought Ja wirklich / Really Könnte / Could Leben / Life Mein Leben / My Life Meine Zeit / My Time Mir / Me Neu / New New York Schreiben / Writing Würde / Would York Zeit / Time
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.
My life has really been about writing, though some think it's all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it's the writing that's always been the point.
I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.
