Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.