Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

- Victor Lavalle

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

- Victor Lavalle

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the pl…

- Victor Lavalle

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

- Victor Lavalle

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear …

- Victor Lavalle

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

- Victor Lavalle

Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the sto…

- Victor Lavalle

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a mov…

- Victor Lavalle

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

- Victor Lavalle