I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.