Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

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

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.