Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

People are always beautiful when you love them.