Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.
I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
It is very natural for a couple in love to be physically intimate.
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.
For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.
