My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Do not focus on the broken pieces, focus on the whole picture

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing.

leave it to him to get messed up with deaths little girl

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

You always want to walk a tight-rope of flavor

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.