To want is to have a weakness.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.