These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.

How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.