The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.

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