I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

My tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.

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.