I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

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.

Love is a hidden treasure. You never know you have it until someone special reveals it.

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t.

If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.