I just like doing it, I like writing.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

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

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

Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.

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

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