Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

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.

Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.