If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

The American dream is still to own your home.

I grew up with a front row seat to the American dream.

Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

The American dream belongs to all of us.