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

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

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

Inevitably we start by thinking that if our work is any good, we'll get money. It's as we would if you started up a business or if you work in another profession.

Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic. I think the answer is that you start by having her look for her car keys, because everybody knows what it's like.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.