I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives. Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an anything seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes".

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?