I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.