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

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Our love is our burden.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

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

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

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