“I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.”
“I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.”
“There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.”
“When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.”
“I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.”
“I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.”
“God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.”
“As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.”
“Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.”
“After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.”