No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.