My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.