I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.