...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Everyone's got a different story.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.