A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

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

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Depression is always in the details.