I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey. ~ Susan J. McIntire

You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother.

You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.