The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.