I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

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've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

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

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.