Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

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

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

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.