I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.