I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough you will be a healthy person. That is if you write what you need to write as opposed to what will make money or what will make fame.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

But the fact is I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom and I'm a woman and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor so I come from a very academic background. I love writing you know?

My mom was dying for me to write a book she was my biggest advocate.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I like to write and draw and paint and my mom's an artist so I think I get caught up in thinking 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.