What does it matter what my personality is It's fair enough to talk about the stories, but they're not an autobiographical display.
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Well, I've found myself a lot of times with student manuscripts, saying to them that it worries me that their work seems hermetically sealed.
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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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