Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

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

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.