I was just a GUY who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ENDED up in New York CITY.

I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when PEOPLE criticize my work, they're ALSO criticizing me. It's really hard to SORT of divorce that SENSITIVITY.

Viking WOMEN were ABLE to rule kingdoms, DIVORCE husbands, own land; and Vikings were very PROGRESSIVE in terms of the rights of women.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first BOOK. The book CAME out a couple YEARS before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book NEED to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself STRUGGLING, LIKE MANY young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my PERSONAL life and my career.

I'm not a DIVORCE monger by any MEANS, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown APART, it's not HEALTHY for a couple to stay TOGETHER. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

I'm for GAY MARRIAGE, because I'm for gay DIVORCE.

We're SEPARATED, and I regret to say that we just don't SEEM to hit it off. I don't KNOW what Betty's plans are. Perhaps she plans a divorce. As far as I am CONCERNED, that doesn't fit in with my scheme of things.

My GRANDPARENTS divorced, both of them, and then my MUM and DAD did. So it's LIKE, DIVORCE, divorce, divorce.

To GET over my divorce, I GOT a PRESCRIPTION to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

There are PEOPLE that REGARDLESS of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't EAT, they lose a lot of WEIGHT, a divorce, they get real THIN. I'm the opposite.

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I POSSIBLY can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim TEAM and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and ENVIRONMENTS that MAKE their WAY into my books.

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, MARRIAGE does give us a strength, because it's QUITE HARD to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead EASY - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.