I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.