I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

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 couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.