“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
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Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
