That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.