Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

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.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.