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I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.