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

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

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.

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

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