My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write..

As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decisi….

I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying..

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day..

What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I ….

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone, nor would I, could I, ever ….

There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as….

If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spe….

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and dee….

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenc….

My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing..

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into th….

My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with tha….

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in r….

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud..