Gemütlich / Comfortable Mädchen / Girl Niemand / Nobody Position Schreiben / Writing Schrieb / Wrote Wer / Who Wusste / Knew Ziemlich / Quite Zug / Train
I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
