I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters

I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.