The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

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

I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.

The idea of life in France is a utopia where the women are beautiful and they eat cheese all day and wear designer clothes and are magically thin and more evolved. And that's wonderful. Over here, we're still fighting for birth control.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

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