The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.