Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

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.

I am happy in every moment and every day. My happiness depends on me, not on the way.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.

Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?

The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.