“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people giv...”

“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ”

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes y...”

“If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?”

“This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.”

“The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.”

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”

“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”