People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.