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I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
