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.

It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.