If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.