When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.