You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.