And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.