“Everyday is an adventure to write about-----”

“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”

“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.”

“I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not- so-everyday challenges. And believe me, I love readers like you to bits. I've built my career one reader at a time. I owe a dept of gratitude to you all!”

“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”

“Anna used to be the abstinence poster girl, but you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape.”