Jenny Mollen

“I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.”

“I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.”

“The majority of our relationship took place over the phone, saving me tons of calories in unswallowed semen.”

“Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.”

“The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!”

“In a healthy relationship, there is stability and security.”

“I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.”

“I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That book is so incredible.'”

“I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.”

“There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.”

“Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.”

“I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?”

“I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.”

“I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.”

“It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.”