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.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.