I'm not somebody who believes in evil.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.

I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.