I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

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.

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

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.