You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

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

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?