My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.