I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.