I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night.
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That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.
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Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.
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I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage.
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