I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

Courage is more important than confidence

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.