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

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.