Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.