So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

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

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

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

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.