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"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."

"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."

"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."
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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."


"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."


"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."


"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."


"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."


"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end."


"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
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