You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.