Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.