"A writer is always so conflicted about their work, so it was liberating to be able to be in this space of my words, w…"

"Imagine this story as if you were telling it to your mother. I always write with this in mind. Keep in mind this does…"

"Alabama is more than one of the States. It is another country. The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or …"

"The memory of one who is taken into the heart of a little child is kept forever green."

"What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you…"

"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."

"I want to believe that it is sometimes our greatest and most difficult pain that leads us to our lives' purpose."

"... '. At the end of his , Hemingway writes of , “I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.” That line, and …"

"Don’t try to impose your will on a book before you know what it is—or what it needs. Writing is a kind of trust exerc…"