"I think I don't write fiction because I don't really know how to invent characters. I just know how to put myself int…"

"I had complicated feelings about Judaism. I went to Jewish schools and synagogue and youth groups and summer camps. I…"

"My grandma gave me the “Bintel Brief” book that she had—this collection of letters that was published in 1971—that’s …"

"I love them! I was reading Miss Manners for a while (that was Judith Martin). I watch The Steve Harvey Show sometimes…"

"The shadow represents my strangeness and my creativity—my soul, which I used to run from in hopes of learning how to …"

"I think that’s when I realized that my favorite thing to write is about my life, but with some fictional things throw…"

"It’s a story about these quiet stories women pass on from generation to generation. It’s a thing women do because we …"

"I think a movement of women coming forward and saying we’re not what society says we are should also be a men’s movem…"

"I like having an audience. I don’t think I ever work when I don’t have an audience, which is one of my great failings."

"I so much think of the Torah as just a story and, like, a beautiful window into the way people thought thousands of y…"