I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

I'm not in charge of my life.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.