I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

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

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

I write because I love doing it.

I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.