I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.