Kathryn Stockett

I see why it's very touchy.

And I got to say this.

And I said it.

I believed it during the help.

I still believe it.

And I believed it when I was writing The Calamity Club.

It is so important just as human beings and especially as a writer for us to try to imagine what it feels like to stand in someone else's shoes.

And that doesn't necessarily mean to feel sorry for them.

I think it's so important for us as empathetic and creative human beings to also imagine the successes of other people.

I wish that they taught this in schools.

I think now with, you know, so much on your phone, you can look at something, you can judge it as a problem and you can move on.

And it seems that we've lost the ability to ponder a problem because we so quickly move on to the next.

Well, two answers to that.

First of all, yes, very frustrating.

No one told me at the time, because I only had one book out, that I could say no.

Second answer to that is I am a classic procrastinator.

And I do kind of think it was a way for me to put off facing that empty page again.

Oh gosh, I wish I was.

No, I feel like, you know, when you have a baby and then three months later they're looking at you and saying, when are you going to have another one?

We just put in the last edits, I mean, in February in this, and here it is June.