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.

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

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

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

Books are often far more than just books.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.