I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

I have impeached myself by resigning.