Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.

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.

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.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating