I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
タグ: impossible, step, people, time

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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
タグ: young, always, world, time
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
タグ: growing-up, loved, my-life, life
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
タグ: space, people, time, you
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
タグ: people, thoughts, great, women
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
タグ: living, student, like, people
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