Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy Bear

I was raised by my father I was daddy's girl.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.