Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

I learned failure early and mastered it.