writing Quotes

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Writing gave me the world.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.