I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.