People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

Everyone's got a different story.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

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

Stories are a different kind of true.