The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

I think that different things sell in different countries.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.