Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
From Hallie Ephron
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.
I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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