I prefer a cluttered workspace.

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.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

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

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

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.