To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.