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.

It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

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.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

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'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.