Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I remember being one of those women who never imagined I would get married and have children. You ask any of my high school friends, and I would have been voted in the class to be the least likely to get married or have children.

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.