Beauty, You Can Find It Here If

The Lessons Learned In Journalism Also Apply. Writing For Npr Has Taught Me To Cut A Piece In Half And Then In Half Again - Without Losing The Essence. Apply That To The Swollen Prose Of A Bulky Novel And You Might Reveal A Beautiful Work.

I Wrote Before I Could Write. I Got My Hands On A Journal, Maybe A Hand-me-down; I Had Three Older Siblings. My First Entries Are In The Handwriting Of The Sister Closets In Age (5 Years My Senior). She Must Have Gotten Tired Of My Dictations Because She Gave Up And Then My Blocky Scrawl Shows Up. I Wrote Plays As A Kid Mostly.

Writing Stories Is The Habit Of Lying Put To Good Use.

I'm A Woman, But I've Been A Sexist, Too.

Our Stories Are What We Have,” Our Good Mother Says. “our Stories Preserve Us. We Give Them To One Another. Our Stories Have Value. Do You Understand?