We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

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

Books are often far more than just books.

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

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.