Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

Maybe we're stuck with who we are.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.