I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

I write short stories. I write every day.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.