I've spent my life supporting myself.

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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

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If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

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