Quotes from Heidi Pitlor

I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, 'Maybe he owed somebody money.'" "Yes

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

Mom's got this secret fear that if you don't control your life, if you don't control your man, he will eventually destroy you.

Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?

But what happens if and when writers begin to outnumber readers? What happens when writing becomes more attractive than reading? Will we become -- or are we already -- a nation of performers with no audience?

We -- editors, writers, teachers, publishers -- need to do whatever we can to enliven readers, to help create communities for them if we want to continue to have readers at all. Our independent bookstores are the front lines, and many booksellers are fighting the good fight. Here, books stimulate conversation. Conversation stimulates a sense of community. Listening happens. Thinking. The exchange of thoughts.

Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.

Furthermore, in a new study reported in the journal Science, subjects who read Alice Munro stories—specifically, the collection Too Much Happiness—demonstrated sharper social and psychological insight than those who did not.

after a luncheon party with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, and two producers—"I think it was a psychological test to see how I would act"—Knopf offered O'Brien work as MGM's "European Scenario Editor.

Anderson portrayed the city in Dark Laughter.