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S3E5 | A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Zapico, Bud Smith, Jericho Brown, Jessica Hecht, Avery Trufelman)

The Paris Review

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How Do You Write?

I wrote stories from the time i was a little girl, but i didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. It's make believe its performance, the only difference being that a writer can do it all alone. Do you have any writing rituals? A friend of ours, an actress, was having dinner here with us a couple of other writers. She had to wait for some one to ask her,. which is a strange way to live.

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