” I don’t write for an audience, I don’t think whether my book will sell, I don’t sell it before I finish writing it. “
” I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. “
” You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. “
” I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? “
” I think I would probably have been a good mother. “
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