I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.