“Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing r...” — Mary Kay Andrews Quote

Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.

I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.

I remember trying to go to the cinema with my friends, so I must have been nine or 10, and being told I could not go in because I did not have an adult with me and my mum sending me back with my friends, because we had left, and mum going 'go back, go back, I am not taking you home, go and tell them that you have never spontaneously combusted.'

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

I watch the same cartoons over and over again. I watch Adult Swim. I watch 'Futurama' repeatedly.