I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

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

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

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.