I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.

I think the voice can carry a story.

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back.

SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.

Those tingles she’d felt in her abdomen spread lower. Her body recognised her lover’s voice, wanted him.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Dravid Could play attacking cricket like me but i could never play like him

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

A woman is as young as her knees.