In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.