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

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

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.

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

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

I just like doing it, I like writing.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.