I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.