It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

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

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

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

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.