I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction, so that you can then use that reaction later for something else. But when it's gratuitous language or physical exposure, then I get a bit like, "Oh! Put it away!"

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.