So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

- Christine Sneed

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

- Christine Sneed

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, …

- Christine Sneed

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

- Christine Sneed

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

- Christine Sneed

Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retai…

- Christine Sneed

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

- Christine Sneed

Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry…

- Christine Sneed

I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come…

- Christine Sneed