If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

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

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

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.