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

This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be

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.

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.

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

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

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