You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

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.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

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