...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.