Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.
No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.
I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!
We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.
It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. "
I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.