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

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

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

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.