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When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.