What's important in any working relationship or working with someone in your family is you have to start with a clean slate.

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

When you have a big family, certainly with strong personalities, you feel like you have to fall into a role, and I didn't want to be the little sister or the daughter, because that's who you become as an adult.

I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.

No one wants everyone to know how sick they are and everyone to see how much they are struggling. And when that seems to be the focus, of making sure everyone sees how sick you are, that's just confusing to someone that is trying to be supportive.

I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk into any room and convince the person that you know what you're doing.