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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

There are many days when I want to throw my computer out the window, when I tell myself I'd be better off selling shoes at the mall. But I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.