Author Amy Borkowsky hasn't yet had to look outside her apartment for inspiration. Material for her first book, Amy's Answering Machine (Atria, 2001) came from a drawer of old answering machine tapes filled with hilarious messages from her over-protective mother. And for her latest memoir, Statements: True Tales of Life, Love, and Credit Card Bills, (Chamberlain Bros. 2005) she dug into boxes under her bed and found more than a decade of credit card statements. Since she uses plastic for just about every purchase, the bills are a surprisingly intimate portrait of her life as a young, single woman in New York. (She won't give her current age, saying only that her American Express card says that she's been a card member since '87. But, she insists that on a good day, she can "pass for a member since '97.")