Kathryn Stockett

So many different.

And New York, I love New York so much.

I love the energy.

But I got to say, I can only be there for so long until I have to go back to Mississippi and fill my cup.

You know, I can write in New York for a couple of months and

And then I got to go back and get in the humidity and get around those voices and feel that thing in Mississippi that makes me so happy and so angry at the same time.

After many false starts writing this story, I got fired.

My publisher fired me because it had taken me so long.

Yeah, there's something, I guess, scrappy inside of me that, you know, if you kick me when I'm down, I'm going to come out of that a little bit wiser and a little bit braver.

I don't give up easily.

I got to say, I'm really stubborn.

So when I got fired, it kind of put a fire under my ass.

to prove them wrong.

It was fun to write.

It was.

It was painful.

It was fun.

So glad to be here.

You know, living life and raising my daughter as a divorced woman.

But I think it took me so long because I told myself I would be cautious with this next book.