"To be honest, I didn't have that many when it came to writing. But I think my darkest hour was when I realized that I really wanted to publish my books and suddenly the fear that I wouldn't be able to do it made my fingers stiff. I didn't get much writing done anymore.
How did I get out of there? I typed out Still We're Fear letter by letter with stiff fingers until they became flexible again. In each of the countless times I revised the manuscript, I kept coming back to the places where I thought: Yes, you want that. You want that. And then... I sent the book in."
"Life is a series of conscious or belgium telegram screening unconscious priorities. Only since I became a mother have I known what a real lack of time is. I mean, it's a 24-hour job.
And yet I started writing when I was a young mother who was really stressed out at the time. My apartment usually looks terrible, I rarely make it to the hairdresser and I don't watch TV. There are people who get up at four or five in the morning (Walter's note: I was that kind of person when I couldn't make a living from writing to write - that wouldn't be my thing. But I wrote until midnight more than once when creativity was on its way and I didn't want to go home yet.
Everyone has to know where they want to make compromises. And if you don't want to make any compromises in order to write things instead of other things, that's a legitimate decision too. You just have to make it consciously."