There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

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'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.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.