I Take What People Feel

I Like To Think Of What Happens To Characters In Good Novels And Stories As Knots--things Keep Knotting Up. And By The End Of The Story--readers See An Unknotting Of Sorts. Not What You Expect, Not The Easy Answers You Get On Tv, Not Wash And Wear Philosophies, But A Reproduction Of Believable, Emotional Experiences.

I Love Writing In First Person More Than Third. I Have To Basically Suspend My Own World. I Don't Exist. I'm Just A Conduit. So I Can Be Eight Years Old. I Can Be The Mother Of A Kid That You Find Out Certain Things I'm Not Going To Say.

I'm Not An Angry Woman. I'm Not Bitter.

Few Writers Are Willing To Admit Writing Is Autobiographical.

Let Me Put It This Way: When I Read, I Learned The World Was Not As Small As My House. And That Everybody In My Home Town Was Not Representative Of The Way People In The World Were Raised. And That Was What Saved Me.