If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

I never listen to music when I write.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.