Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

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

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 am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.