I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'