There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.