It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.