That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
Rebecca MillerAs if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.
Rebecca MillerI had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.
Rebecca Miller