I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.