Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

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.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

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

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