shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.