I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

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

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.