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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.