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

I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

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

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

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

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.