And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.