I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.