People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I, Lesley, I like looking nice. I like doing my hair and wearing makeup and wearing nice clothes. But I don't care what my characters look like.
More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.
I like to think everyone is pretty weird but they don't show it.
There's not one person that I say I want to look like.