If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

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

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.