I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.