In 25 Years Of Writing Novels, I've

I Keep A Quotes Journal - Of Every Sentence That I've Wanted To Remember From My Reading Of The Past 30 Years.

We Will Live With Racism For Ever. But Senses Of Self, Senses Of Belonging, Senses Of Us And Of Others? Those Are Up For Grabs.

Only Keep Still, Wait, And Hear, And The World Will Open.

This Idea That A Book Can Either Be About Character And Feeling, Or About Politics And Idea, Is Just A False Binary. Ideas Are An Expression Of The Feelings And The Intense Emotions We Hold About The World.

I Would Say The Flip Side To My Fascination With Systems Is A Fascination With Components. So Many Of My Books Are Dialogues Between Little And Big.