Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

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

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

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