“I am saying: reader, we're going on a journey. You are going to come with me and then I'm pulling... more

We revisit our episode with Gregory Maguire.******"That's really all we are obliged to do for those we call our enemies.... more

“I think kids are actually generally a better audience for literary fiction, for art, for ambitious storytelling that asks the... more

“I think it caused me to get over some of the sort of narcissistic impulses in my writing and not... more

“The two most important things you can do as a writer are to make people wonder what will happen next... more

“Why am I fighting this? Like, why am I fighting the thing that I want to write? For who? For... more

“I cannot do an interview without talking about who I come from as it pertains to the writers who have... more

“I talked about how I didn't process things in my journals. Well, in poetry, I did. All of a sudden,... more

“I see my job as trying to soothe the trauma that teenagers don't know they have yet because everybody's so... more

“I think it has to do with powerlessness, and with the kind of hierarchy that kids endure every day, where... more