Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

I read.. because one life is not enough

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.