It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.