I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

Writers have a job to do. Editors do, too. You have to stand ground and cede ground on a case by case basis. When an editor tells me something isn't working and I still believe in it, I tend to think it just isn't working hard enough.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.