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

Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.