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"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"I always want to rock."
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Personal Development
"We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing."
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Personal Development
"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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Personal Development
"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."
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"I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless."
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"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
Want
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
Complexity
"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
Time
"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."
People
"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."
Memory
"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."
Home
"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."
Time
"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
Personal
"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."
Work
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