I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I'm structured with time.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.