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

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

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

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.

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.