Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.