Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.