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

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

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

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.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.