I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with that.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

When your eyes beholds mine, I am mesmerized only to be your wife in bad times more than the best ones. Because whatever one say Marriage is all about Compassion

I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.