Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.