Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.