I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.
I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
My stories are character driven.
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.