If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience