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I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.