You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.