In spite of winning awards and accolades for their early work, both have sought to simplify and streamline their prose. Because they believe that their words have the capacity to heal readers, both feel that it is more important to make their work accessible than to see how "literary" they can be.
在寫作初期就獲得文學獎肯定，但文風越來越清淡，因為她們都把文字帶給讀者的療癒能量，看得比挑戰自己的文學深度更重要。