Today’s best writers of color and today’s best writers of underrepresented groups, including groups that I belong to, are writers who have learned from the dead.
With every project, I want it to be something fun to do, but also very difficult. The more books I write, the more interested I am in the process. The sense of exhilaration as I write.
When you break the barriers of civility that help hold certain standards of conduct in a society together, and therefore keep us all together, you make anything possible.
America was so ready and desperate for something—we didn’t expect it to be these kids—but we were desperate for a way out, and they arose and let us out.
Feeling competitive with other writers is impossible to get away from entirely, but it’s a useless emotion. There’s no way to measure it. It’s not bowling.
By making the reader commit these phrases to memory—the terms were generally defined only upon first mention—it subtly engaged the reader in the story.