When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.