You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.