I write because I want to have more than one life.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
I spend about a year between novels