I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.