a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...