So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.