Few Writers Are Willing To

I Have A Big Mouth, And Over The Years, As The Eldest Of Five, I Have Had A Tendency To Speak When No One Really Cared.

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.

Pay Attention To The Things That Agitate You. It Will Tell You A Lot About Yourself.

At Least Be A Nice Lesbian Or You're Going To Give The Rest A Bad Rap.

I Can't Stand That - Those Women In 'waiting To Exhale' Now. I Can't Stand Them. But That's Because I'm 53 And Not 33. But What They Were Experiencing At 33, I Identified With It.