She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.