Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.