I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.