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A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.