With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

I smoked for many years like a total idiot.