Bookstore: 'Safe-feeling Environment for Writing'

"But being surrounded by readers and booksellers is a very safe-feeling environment for writing because you know there are people out there who are going to read it and you know there are people out there who are going to sell it and take care of it and help it get into the right hands. Whenever I did hit a point in the writing process where I felt like, ugh, I just cannot go on, this is too hard, it's not coming together, it's too difficult, I would remember those conversations with women who would come into the store and go, I need something. They would stand in front of the memoir section and go, where is the book that I need? And I'd be thinking, OK, maybe I'm writing the book that they need, so I've got to get back in my chair and keep going."