You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.