There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.