Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.