There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.