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When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.
I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.