We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.