My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.