She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.