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

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

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

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

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

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.