Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.