The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Writers need each other.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.