I'm A Private Person, A Shy Person.

Freedom Or Community, Community Or Freedom. One Must Decide The Way One Wants To Live. I Chose Community.

Our Human Impulse Is To Control Everything, But Fiction Seems To Me To Be About Allowing An Element Of Mystery Into The Text.

At Least In My Case, A Very Simple, Regular, Happy Life Makes For Better Writing.

It's Not Easy To Make Friends When You're An Adult Writer Outside Of Academia, Especially When You Work Alone In A Little Room For Twelve Hours A Day, And So I Wrote Toward What I Most Longed For.

I Want To Be Identified As A Writer, Not A Southern Writer, Not A Woman Writer, Not A Woman From This Or That Place, But Unfortunately It Doesn't Always Happen.