You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

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.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

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

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.