I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.