I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.