No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.