In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.

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

Look for beauty in everything.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

We all carry our mothers inside us.