Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.