Cocktail Einsam / Lonely Gefeuert / Fired Geheimnisvoll / Mysterious Inspiration Schriftsteller / Writer Vielleicht / Perhaps Wandern / Wandering Wolke / Cloud Zahl / Figure Zwei / Two
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
