So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.