“I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.”

“Most of my early work was done on typewriter. And the only way to iterate drafts was to re-type it.”

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would...”