I try to approach each project with a fresh perspective.
"To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist silence, to resist oppression."
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm. Always.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Every stroke of the brush carries the weight of personal and collective memory.