Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.