If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.