It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.