Occupation: Writer Birth: December 6, 1972
She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world..
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a me….
I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. ….
I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of cour….
If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the co….
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for tha….
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so….
There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you sudden….
Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be….
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expec….
In seventh grade I gradually became aware that that quickness of feeling was something I was supposed to have outgrown. I was rather guileless, I thi….