Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

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.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

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