"None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond."

"If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later."

"I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person."

"All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way."

"If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."

"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."

"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."

"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."