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I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.

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A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

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My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

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A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

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My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.

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I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.

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When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

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L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

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When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 9th, 1955

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