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.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

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

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.