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Our love is our burden.
Memories are like water.
I prefer true over happy now.
I prefer a cluttered workspace.
I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.'
Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?
Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.
Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.
I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.
I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?
I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.
Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.
She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.
Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.
A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.