I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

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.

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!