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

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

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

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

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.

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.