I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.