Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.