It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

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.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?