I Prefer A Cluttered Workspace.

I Want Women Writers To Write Boldly, Wildly, Deeply. I Want Them To Feel Really Liberated To Tell The Brutal Truth, However They See That Truth And Are Moved To Tell It.

Writing Is My Obsession, My Passion. My Relationship With It Is One Of The Most Complex And Agonizing And Richly Vexing That I Have In My Life.

Love Is A Luxury. It's Something That People Are Allowed To Indulge In When They're Not Simply Trying To Survive And Keep Other People Alive.

It's Not That I Bounce Ideas Off Of My Children As Much As It Is That Having Children Has Had A Profound Effect On The Way I See The World. They Have Mined My Soul. They've Made Me A Better Person And Therefore A More Empathetic Writer.

I Believe That One Of The Most Damning Things About Our Culture Is The Adage To Never Talk Religion And Politics. Because We Don't Model This Discourse At The Dinner Table And At Thanksgiving, We Don't Know How To Do It Well And We're Not Teaching Our Children About The World And About How To Discuss It.