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I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.