One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

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

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

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

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

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

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.