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

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

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.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

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