Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!