Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an addictive cycle.….

I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I….

For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious comp….

In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religi….

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets al….

I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality tales. In fac….

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become jewels in ….

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice a….

I do think some games are works of art, although their medium is visual rather than verbal. Both games and novels allow the reader/player to become a….

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces..

The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what y….