My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.

The greatest sacredness is great love.

In the effort to reach the stars and change the world, make sure you touch a heart and change a life.

We are a people of improbable hope.

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.