Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.
Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
I like cream cheese in just about anything.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
