I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

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.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.