Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

Truth can hurt so very much.

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.