The Moth

And I may not know a lot about women, but when a woman is talking to me about the man who wrote Repent Harlequin said the TikTok man and City on the Edge of Forever, which is the best episode of Star Trek ever made.

And I may not know a lot about women, but when a woman is talking to me about the man who wrote Repent Harlequin said the TikTok man and City on the Edge of Forever, which is the best episode of Star Trek ever made. That's a girl I can talk to.

We were equally obsessed with Wuthering Heights and the Gospel according to Mark.

I saw that he'd made a post on the Wuthering Heights page that Emily Bronte was the weakest of the Bronte sisters.

Some years ago, in 2014, I wrote a book about taking care of my parents in the last 10 years or so of their lives. It was called Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

My father's phrase, can't we talk about something more pleasant was the title for this book.

And that's kind of what the book was about.

Well, some years ago in 2014, I wrote a book about taking care of my parents in the last 10 years or so of their lives. It's called Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

The title came from something that my father used to say a lot. It was really one of his favorite phrases. The other one was Why Ask for Trouble?

And now take A Long Dissolve, I've done all in the family and all the shows, The Jeffersons, The Good Times, all the shows that followed from there. And it's a great many years later and I've written a book. This was just last year.

Even This I Get to Experience, which is true of this moment for me. It took me 93 years to get here to this moment.

And the governor introduced me and there must have been 300 people at dinner in this big ballroom. And they had named the theater, the marquee, next door to the ballroom. It was the Norman Lear Theater.

And you're going to get it now. I couldn't imagine where the hell she was going with this. She said, I read your book.

He received the Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Artistic Achievement and his memoir, Even This I Get to Experience, is available now.

His memoir, Even This I Get to Experience, is available now.

I held on to one for the day of my nineteenth birthday, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

I held on to one for the day of my 19th birthday, The Scarlet Pimpernel. I came downstairs. There were the gifts. There was the cake. ... I read it straight through. ... When I finished it, I cried myself to sleep, holding it to my chest.

The second birthday I got two, The Little Inch and the Could and The Little Red Hen.

My father had started a tradition on my first birthday by giving me one book, The Pokey Little Puppy. The second birthday I got two, The Little Engine That Could and The Little Red Hen.

And most recently we were at the Walmart and we found a copy of My Butt is So Silly. And we all kind of clamored over who was going to get to grab it off the shelf and read it first. And we got in the car and we read it on the way home and we laughed and we giggled because kids need those silly books.

We found a copy of My Butt is So Silly. And we all kind of clambered over who was going to get to grab it off the shelf and read it first.

Her memoir The Almost Dancer is in bookstores now.

Her ballet memoir, The Almost Dancer, is available now.

I wrote therapeutically about the process of rediscovering myself as an artist and eventually organized it all into a book.

Now, this was right around the time I was reading Kitchen Confidential and watching just about every gritty TV drama and movie there was about chef life. And it turns out that at its core, all of it is pretty accurate.

She says her love of storytelling emerged somewhere between the very hungry cat Caterpillar and Twilight.

one of the books we had to read was Pride and Prejudice. I hate that book. I think if Jane Austen was a good writer, she'd be a Bronte sister.

But then I would open up my book and he would leave me alone.

Danny ... says, Lord of the Rings bro. And I'm pretty sure he means Lord of the Flies.

He found my positive review of The Great Gatsby, and he said, of course you like a book with a...

Take Harry, for instance, like, yo, I knew what it was like to have pressure, so much pressure on you.

And my man, Ron. Y'all, I get it, we was broke. We were so broke if you tried to rob me, you'd just be practicing.

I know the difference between Slytherin and Hufferpuff, even before the book even said it.

I was at a part in the Sorcerer's Stone where I was like, you can't quit, you got to figure out what happens.

I'm at Hogwarts.

That is not in Ron Chernow's book.

I looked over at all these kids reading their Charlotte's Web and Sherlock Holmes and whatever, I got to read Stephen King.

And I sat down and wrote the final draft of The Satanic Verses.

And I discovered that not only landmines could make a big bang, sometimes books could make them too.

Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber? Lettuce? Green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to a storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.

My favorite was Nancy Drew. He put his own spin on everything he read to me. He did all of the characters' voices in this hilarious falsetto.

Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of 18, was driving home along a country road in her new dark blue convertible.