It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.