I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

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

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.