There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?