"I lost a lot of cred within the literary industry. I still think there are people who sneer over it and don't understand."
"I kept butting up against wanting to protect people and not wanting to hurt anyone with my writing."
"Once I decided to become anonymous, I knew exactly what I wanted to write, and it was the most exhilarating writing process I've ever had."
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"It was mortifying. I had my two bewildered parents in the thick of it," she says. "It was an incredibly stressful time."
"Thank God it was in the days before social media because it would have just killed me. It would have just completely crushed me, the whole thing, and probably destroyed my career."