Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.