There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.