People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.