Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?