Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

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.

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.

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

Being in a bad relationship is like trying to dance when you’re sad.

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.