I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.