There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.