Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.

What you say is what matters.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.