If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

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

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.