I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.