I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.