What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.