If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Every letter was a love letter.