Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.