Nothing develops intelligence like travel..

Where ever you are be all there.

The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women….

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be..

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container..

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless..

When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a ….

I like making movies..

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene..

Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book..

The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first….

Celebrity is intoxicating..

The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of you….

What we are not changing, we are choosing..

Dance like nobody's watching..

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality..

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

Education liberates a woman..

Easy writing's curst hard reading..

I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the family would weigh in. And then….