Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.