"It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort."

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."

"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

"We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next."

"The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way."

"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."