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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

I tried to do things independently with each child.

When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.