But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

Anyway, these books I love, they’re all books by men—every last one of them. Because if it’s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it’s totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry. I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it? I'll always find the hardest path.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.