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

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

Little children are all writers.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

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

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page.