It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.