If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.