It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

No one really wants to be laughed at.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection and they stop. Either they stop writing or they have these books in their drawers. I know that for a fact.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.