I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

Some people are born to make a Point... And some to make money... No COMPARATIVE analogy exists

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.