I Prefer A Cluttered Workspace.

Are There Books About Us Or Something?” This Makes Pressia Angry - The Idea That This World Is A Subject Of Study, A Story, Instead Of Filled With Real People, Trying To Survive.

If I'd Learned Nothing Else, It Was This: If You Want To Be A Great Writer, Be A Man. If You Can't Be A Man, Write Like One.

Sometimes When Reading Aloud To My Husband, I'll Start Crying. It Completely Stuns Me. As If The Words In My Body And On The Page - In Relation To Each Other - Are Cocooned Against My Own Feelings About What I'm Writing Until They're Loosed In The Air And Become Their Own. Then I Realize What I May Or May Not Have Done.

If Men Are Paid/praised More Than Women For The Same Work Than It Always Pays To Allow The Man To Have More Freedom To Pour Himself Into His Work - Think Of Athletes, Actors Over The Age Of 28, Lawyers, Accountants, College Deans.

Writing Is My Obsession, My Passion. My Relationship With It Is One Of The Most Complex And Agonizing And Richly Vexing That I Have In My Life.