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

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

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.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

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.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.