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- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
- The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to…
- The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense.…
- He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
- Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him…
- Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
- Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
- If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy…
- Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in…
- I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
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