Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.
Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
The truth will make you odd.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.
I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.