We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.