I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that.
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.
I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.
Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.
The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
