I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.