We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.