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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was... →
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer... →
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from... →
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active... →
For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives... →
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does... →
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective... →
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you... →
People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in... →
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go... →
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a... →
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time... →
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