"My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30."

"I've done every diet there is."

"My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty."

"There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture."

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

"When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book."

"It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy."

"My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!"