A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approa….

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you bel….

I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and publishe….

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my….

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion lin….

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am a….

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective..

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?".

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring wh….

My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I….

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!.

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts..

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me..

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thr….

I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to re….

I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She….

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting..

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm….

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels..

People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no long….

A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher"….