All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.

I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else." Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth. "You know . . . I love you madly." He smiled. "Yes, I know.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.