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.

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers will think I have been, of course.

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.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.