There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

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 was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.