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I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

All I am is a writer and a mom.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.