I Have A Big Mouth,

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.

Life Is Like A Jigsaw Puzzle, You Have To See The Whole Picture, Then Put It Together Piece By Piece!

I Remember The Day I Turned Thirty. I Was Getting Out Of The Shower And I Stood In Front Of The Mirror And Stared At Myself For A Long Time. I Examined Every Inch Of My Body And Appreciated The Fact That I Finally Looked Like A Grown Woman. I Also Assumed That This Was How I Was Going To Look For The Rest Of My Life. The Way I Saw It, I Was Never Going To Age; I'd Just Look Up One Day And Be Old.

I Like To Think Of What Happens To Characters In Good Novels And Stories As Knots--things Keep Knotting Up. And By The End Of The Story--readers See An Unknotting Of Sorts. Not What You Expect, Not The Easy Answers You Get On Tv, Not Wash And Wear Philosophies, But A Reproduction Of Believable, Emotional Experiences.

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.