I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.