You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an idea, hone it, and write it. I come up with thirty ideas, flesh each one out, research each one, come up with characters, and then decide I don't like it.

My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.