You can start your day over anytime.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

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.

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.