"Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress."

"I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature."

"I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time."

"The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut."

"As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!"