"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.

The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

Every writer has to find the thing to keep her eye on about which she has strong opinions. That's of course deeply personal, but the nice thing is that it has to do with joy rather than fear. It has to do with you. If you're funny, your method will be to try to be funnier. Which again is empowering I think.