Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns out when I talk to the writer that she or he, and more often it's a woman, that she's worried.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

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

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.

I don't really like to tell people to get out drugs.

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