To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.