“Everything is fair in love and art.”

“I swooned again I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.”

“I couldnt admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.”

“The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.”

“I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.”

“The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is ...”

“Im a dot in the grand scheme of things. I dont matter, not even to the other dots.”

“Music is a writer's heartbeat.”

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”