As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.