When in doubt, shut up.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published