“Reflecting on Pat stories brings a smile and fills me with a mirth too often missing from life during these turbulent times…. His words were […]

“We cannot read a book without importing ourselves as characters. This is one of the marvels of fiction. We get to rehearse things on the written page. We […]

“After reading Pat Conroy the first time I began to understand there was a larger world I could read my way into, and it was like […]

“A lot of people, I think, set out to write a novel that will accomplish something. And I guess I’m much more interested in writing a novel […]

“Sometimes when I write a novel, I find that I have injected parts of my ‘lost life’ into the story. I have never lived in […]