I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.