I've always written about maternal ambivalence. It's the subject that consumes me. |
If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book. |
It was a group of two dozen women arrayed around this living room. Four were on my side, and the rest were trying to figure out how to hang me. |
It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just what you want but ends up becoming a gilded cage. |
Names are important in terms of how you construct your characters' identity, ... But the First Amendment is more important than anything. |
No author loves the idea of not choosing his or her characters' names, ... Mommy Track Mystery. |
They can be either a freshman at UC San Diego with one too many piercings or a far-too-perfect Southern California mother. |
Usually I try not to read that stuff. For someone who writes openly about her life, I have the thinnest skin. I don't like feeling that people don't like me. It makes me very upset. |