Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

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

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?