In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.