It was a group of two dozen women arrayed around this living room. Four were on my side, and the rest were trying to figure out how to hang me.

It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just what you want but ends up becoming a gilded cage.

Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinnest skin. I don't like feeling that people don't like me. It makes me very upset.

Names are important in terms of how you construct your characters' identity, ... But the First Amendment is more important than anything.

No author loves the idea of not choosing his or her characters' names, ... Mommy Track Mystery.

If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.