“I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on ...” — Amy Bloom Quote

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

My grandmother tended to divide life into 'nice' and 'not so nice.' Life in America, her apartment, her grandchildren: 'nice'; life before 1915: 'not so nice.' That's all I heard.

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

That might surprise people how actually cool Brock can be if he likes you - key words if he likes you.

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

Lee Min Ho is a very cool guy, and I had a great teamwork with him as well.

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.