I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

You're a part of me...You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right? —D

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"