It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.