I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

My biggest critics have never read me.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.