When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
You know what's strange? A lot of men don't dream in color. Women will dream in color more than men.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
