Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good. That's why I find that stuff unreadable." One is looking for something that's a little more emotionally complex and nuanced.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.