... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

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.

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.