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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.