If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

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.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

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

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.