I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

I'm not in charge of my life.