What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.