There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

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

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

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.

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