I like blogs. they're good times.

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

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

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.

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.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

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.