Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.