Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.