You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.