I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages, I don't do email. I take breaks only to read, and usually I read poetry. When it's not going well, I just lie in bed and eat chocolate.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.