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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.