It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.