I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

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

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.