Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.