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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.