It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.
I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.
Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.
I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.