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

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

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

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.

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.