Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.