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I'm a writer first and a singer second.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

All I am is a writer and a mom.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.