She Nodded, Jotting Something In Her Notebook.

I Heard Gillian Say, With A Laugh, At This Point, Does Anyone Expect The Liberals Not To Be Total Hypocrites? She Was Oblivious To The Possibility That Perhaps Not Everyone Present Shared Her Views, And I Thought, You're Sixteen. How Can You Already Be A Republican?

I Think I Write What's Interesting To Me, And So If I'm Reading I Like To Have A Very Thorough Idea Of A Character In A Book That's By Someone Else.

I Think In General, Novels By Men Tend To Be Taken More Seriously Than Novels By Women.

It's Different To Read A Book For Pleasure Than To Read It Analytically. In The Past, I'd Read Pride And Prejudice For Pleasure. This Time, I Was Really Looking At The Structure, The Order Of Events, How The Characters Interact With Each Other And How The Book Is Paced.

The Best Part Of Being A Writer For Me Is Immersing Myself In A Fictional World, Which Is The Opposite Of Being On Social Media. At The Same Time, If No One Ever Read My Work, If I Was Writing Solely For Myself, I Bet It Would Be Lonely And A Lot Less Fun.