I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.