If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I haven't read the Book of Job yet, but I'm about to.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.