I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.