If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.