I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries are in the handwriting of the sister closets in age (5 years my senior). She must have gotten tired of my dictations because she gave up and then my blocky scrawl shows up. I wrote plays as a kid mostly.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

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

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

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

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.