“I am an insomniac. I wake up at 6 or 6:30 and get out of bed immediate...” — Megan Abbott Quote

“I am an insomniac. I wake up at 6 or 6:30 and get out of bed immediately. The coffee starts right away. Then I get to the computer as quickly as possible. I like to start writing when I'm still half-asleep, in a state between dreaming and waking.”

“I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.”

“I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.”

“Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.”

“In Malaysia, with my dad, the only time I really spent time with him was when we had dinner back at the hotel, in the room, just me and him. That was good, to have him there, just before going to bed, to have a chat.”

“When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.”