The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
Biblical names are hot again.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.
I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.
Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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