No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

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