When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.