Stories are a different kind of true.
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.