I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.