I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

nice is such a rip-off.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.