I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

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

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

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

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