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.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

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

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

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.