"I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged.
"I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
Of course, now she can say, "I'm the first billionaire writer!"
or
"I'm the most popular writer in the world."
She's pretty humble, though, so maybe she'd just say, "I'm a writer."
