We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.