[When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.