I started writing stories as a child.

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.