The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.