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

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 love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

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

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.

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