I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

I never listen to music when I write.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.