I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

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I always say, the time you spend with your dog makes the difference in a great dog or a crate dog.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over.