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You fall for who the chemistry is with.

You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.

You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Nobody... took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.