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

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

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.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

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 rarely met a shoe I didn't like.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!