A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.