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I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.
Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.