Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.