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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}
yes?

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{SPEAKER name="Audience "}
As you've written about Robert Mapplethorpe,
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I'm wondering if you feel that your story has been told through your work?
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or do you feel there's someone out there who will write your story in the way you've written his?
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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}
I was going to ask and actually close proceedings by asking are you going to write about yourself.
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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Well, I love to...I am writing another book already.
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I started...once I finished that book, I couldn't stop writing, I just kept going,
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and because my mind, I so disciplined myself to write and think about, you know, all of these times.
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I have a certain time period that I would like to write about from a different point of view,
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just kids with completely filtered, as much as I could it was filtered through Robert and I, because that was my task.
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But I would like to write a book even sort of in the same time period, from my own point of view
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that really is, you know, my thoughts, my thoughts of being a girl, my thoughts in being a young artist, my thoughts in writing the songs that I wrote
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but I like writing about when I was younger, especially childhood. It's --
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I don't think that I'll write a whole lot after a certain period because it's just too close to me, but I can't imagine really that anybody could
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write my story past a certain age except maybe my daughter, who knows me best.
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{SPEAKER name="David C. Ward"}
Well, we'll have her when she does that. [[audience laughter]] Again, Patti Smith, thank you, it's been a pleasure.
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{SPEAKER name="Patti Smith"}
Thank you.

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