Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.