I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the….

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my f….

The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the po….

A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never outline. I let the cha….