I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.