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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

I do enjoy working with writers.