I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.