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.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

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

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

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.