“I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.”

“I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever i...”

“I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.”

“My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.”

“I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is not as flattering as I thought,' or 'I should smile bigger,' or 'That positioning is odd.' I learn ...”

“I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.”

“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip in love with, The kind of girl you never forget.”

“Not every story is about a girl who dreams of romance, waiting impatiently and dramatically for a tall, handsome, strong man to fall hopelessly in love with, in the foolish hope that he will protec...”

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.”

“We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.”

“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”

“I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you wan...”

“A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”

“People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you dont think Im going to go out and do that.”

“In the sacred season, we shall harvest the ripen fruit.”