Don't uncork what you can't contain

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.