Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

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.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.