I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

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 don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

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