The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!