Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.