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" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "

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" My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation. "

" Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. "

" I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.' "

" We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. "

" I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. "

" There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest. "

" The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big deal. But I have to ask the question: Is everything okay?' "

" Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. "

" I grew up in a house full of books. "

" I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes. "

" I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year. "

" Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. "

" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "

" Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. "

" I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?' "

" I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. "

" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "

" I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. "

" There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. "

" What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic. "

" The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system? "

" I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. "

" Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. "

" My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. "

" You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you. "

" I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? "

" I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. "

" There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. "

" I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' "

" It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for. "