Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.

My first husband was a serial cheater.