Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

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.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

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.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.