I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.
Trump is very skillful at identifying - even if he can't quite get it clear, or precisely describe it - but that's what he wants to do, is always have something to use against people, even if it's distorted.
My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.
Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.