When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

The best moment in writing any book is when you just can't wait to get back to the writing, when you can't wait to re-enter that fictional place, when your fictional town feels even more real than the town where you actually live.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.