People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual..

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities..

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and rea….

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, ….

Sometimes, things are just exercises..

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment..

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment,….

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still..

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure..

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared.

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth somethi….

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national tre….

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim..

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections ….

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers..

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write..

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human..

Please make me either relatable or terrible..

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my frien….

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it coul….

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty g….