It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.