Who do I think would appreciate my book?I’m surprised anybody does. Oops, did I say that out loud?

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

Open your soul and put it out there and dare the world to read it, ready to have them stomp on you and laugh, but ready to do it again the next day.

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you’re a writer. That’s still considered cool.

I wasn’t a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.

It’s amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I’ve finished three chapters rather than run a mile.

I usually end have one outrageous minor character. He or she says the stuff I wish I had said in real life. Readers will love that character.

Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.

Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

If the human brain is really capable of having 60, 000 to 80, 000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.

And I swear, she tasted like the sun.

Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.