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I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.
The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
If I do commentary, write articles, or am an expert on a news channel, I can still earn money.
