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I live for the blank page.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.