If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.