My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.