Part Of It Is Living In Tennessee.

I Believe That, More Than Anything Else, This Grief Of Constantly Having To Face Down Our Own Inadequacies Is What Keeps People From Being Writers. Forgiveness, Therefore, Is Key. I Can't Write The Book I Want To Write, But I Can And Will Write The Book I Am Capable Of Writing. Again And Again Throughout The Course Of My Life I Will Forgive Myself.

The Quality Of Gifts Depends On The Sincerity Of The Giver.

No One Should Have To Go Back To The Place Where She Had Once Been A Girl.

Anytime You Write About Priests Or Cops, They're Hot-button Professions.

Only A Few Of Us Are Going To Be Willing To Break Our Own Hearts By Trading In The Living Beauty Of Imagination For The Stark Disappointment Of Words.