Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
タグ: truth

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Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
タグ: get, give, criticism, you
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
タグ: literary, awards, get, success
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
タグ: great, you, me, life
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
タグ: more, way, age, time
My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.
タグ: fast, two, say, friends
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