‘There’s a lot of things that are maddening about writing, but one of the things that I love maybe the most is when ideas just pop out of nowhere and…

‘There’s a kind of power when you dare to inhabit the first person with unvarnished vulnerability and honesty’

‘The biggest takeaway from Desi’s story for me is that talent in our country comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and sometimes in the most unlikely packages’

‘Some Princeton students have reached out saying that they really identified with the characters, especially multiracial young women, and that meant so much to me’

‘None of these characters are black and white. I wanted everything and everybody in this book to live in the gray area, because that felt like life to me’

‘I never set about to write this story because I wanted to take down Shakespeare. I did it because I love those plays, and I wanted to understand how they…

‘I don’t know that we can always be reduced to events that have happened in our past …. I’m very much interested in the way that characters behave in the…