There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have that luxury. I have a babysitter for three hours a day, which is how long I have to write.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.