Joy Fielding quotes:

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.