When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.