I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

I love what I do. I'm so lucky.