People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.