People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.