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

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

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.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?