Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.