I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.