I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.