Reading remains one of the purest things I do.

Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.

This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.