I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.

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

I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.

The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American literature couldn't possibly be something they could be interested in or relate to. They have limited imaginations, which is sad.

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

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.