I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.