The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.