It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for pleasure. This time, I was really looking at the structure, the order of events, how the characters interact with each other and how the book is paced.

I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.

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?

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

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