I prefer true over happy now.

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

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.

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 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.