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.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

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.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.