My Grandmother Influenced Me So Deeply.

I Made Real Sacrifices And Took Big Risks. But Living, It Seems To Me, Is Largely About Risk.

I Learned Not To Be So Bitterly Defeated When My Fiction Took A Beating From Editors. I Learned In Advertising To Color In The Lines And Have My Work Done On Time And To Make It The Very Best It Could Be.

And It Can Be A Way Of Healing.

For A Very Long Time, I Wrote A Book A Year, And Was Eager And Willing To Do It, To Put Bread On The Table, To Have My Work Out There. Now I Must Write A Book Every Two Years, And That's Never Enough Time, Either.

Sometimes You Have To Gag On Fancy Before You Can Appreciate Plain.