Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

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