The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

the only thing left to do is love

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.