My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

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.

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

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.