What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.