When I Was Writing My First Draft,

I Surround Myself With Women Who Inspire Me To Be More Ambitious, And Who Constantly Astonish Me With Their Magnetism, Style, And Smarts.

We're Taught To Find The Antecedents To Our Adult Failures In Childhood Traumas, And So We Spend Our Lives Looking Bacwards And Pointing Fingers, Rather Than Bucking Up And Forging Ahead. But What If Your Childhood Was All A Big Misunderstanding? An Elaborate Ruse? What Does That Say About Failure? Better Yet, What Does That Say About Potential?

I Think The One Reason That Writers Marry Other Writers - One Of The Reasons That I Married Another Writer - Was, I Fell In Love With That Writer. But Second Of All, I Had Been Married Before And A Source Of Marital Strife Was Me Needing To Go Away For A Couple Of Weeks To Write Or It's Saturday And I Think I Just Need To Work Today And Not Hang Out With You.

I Want The Plot To Be As Complicated As Possible. Usually I'll Write All The Way Through To An End, And Then I Go Back And Try To Fix The Ending So That It Makes Sense. I Don't Think Out The Plot Ahead Of Time.

Home Is The Place Where, When You Go There, They Have To Take You In. In Other Words: Home Has Exceedingly Low Standards.