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" People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty. "

" I think everyone self-mythologizes. "

" The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill set that lets you go on television shows like 'The View' or 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' "

" I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage. "

" As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap. "

" Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. "

" 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?' "

" I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown. "

" I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing. "

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

" I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view. "

" My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. "

" I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out. "

" 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. "

" I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. "

" I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why. "

" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "

" I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel. "

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

" I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. "

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" I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. "

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

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

" Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. "

" A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. "

" I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. "

" I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people. "

" I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage. "