I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.