I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.