I think the difference between writing as someone and writing for them is that when you write for someone, you take on a kind of political burden or message, which I don't think we have the right to do.

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

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

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.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

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.

I love it when people can help me with my work, so I do show it.