I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.