I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
Roxane GayI look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.
Roxane GayMy tweeting is cool and calm unless I am riled up about something and then I just surrender to the fury of my fingers.
Roxane GayIt's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for fatness. You're a failure, because only a lazy person, only a dumb person, would allow themselves to get into this situation. It's appalling that this is the mindset. People generally treat fat people like we don't know anything about anything. It's incredibly demeaning. And incredibly frustrating.
Roxane Gay