Write what you care about.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African American candidate - yes! And here's a woman candidate - yes! Why can't I get behind either one of them? Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.