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I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.

I let her go on with this fantasy, this belief in magical endings, this belief that love can bring someone to life.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer.

I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, 'He doesn't love you. I love you.

We're just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

We've visited a lot, but being a visitor is very different from living in Hawaii, especially when you're going to high school.

I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.

Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would be it.

Scottie and I walk down the hall. Her T-shirt says MRS. CLOONEY,

You're a dad-ass. Like a badass but older.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic.

I miss her despite the fact that she envisioned the rest of her life without me.

With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

I like to work out every day, so that takes up some time.

It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.

Adults appreciate the flavor of wine, its nuances and such. And we have major problems and stress.

Where's Sid?" I ask. "Why do I always

I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

Don't pull out." "That's what she said,

I can still love feeling so close to the sun and peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude - it makes me feel like every breath counts.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

your business," I say. "And you're not sleeping in

Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

Where are their mothers? Kids are so free here. It makes them seem older, more capable, coordinated, but wild.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.