Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.