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

I studied literature design and fashion design.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

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

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

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.

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.