People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, pe….

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ….

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind..

Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a ….

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most..

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in….

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any qui….

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to ge….

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books..

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known ….

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best….

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii..

One can never had too many librarian friends..

Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection….

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights..

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a t….

What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topi….

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Man….

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie..

Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and ….

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how wo….