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

in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

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.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

I write really well on the road.

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

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.