Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

"I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" The baby starts to come down...and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it.

What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.