Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

I just like doing it, I like writing.

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.