Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.
You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.
Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!